diff --git a/easybuild/easyblocks/n/nccl.py b/easybuild/easyblocks/n/nccl.py
index 48380466a94..b2ba096434f 100644
--- a/easybuild/easyblocks/n/nccl.py
+++ b/easybuild/easyblocks/n/nccl.py
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@
 import os
 
 from easybuild.easyblocks.generic.configuremake import ConfigureMake
-from easybuild.tools.config import build_option
 from easybuild.tools.systemtools import get_shared_lib_ext
 from easybuild.tools.filetools import copy_file
 
@@ -39,6 +38,11 @@
 class EB_NCCL(ConfigureMake):
     """Support for building NCCL."""
 
+    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        """Init module env"""
+        super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
+        self.module_load_environment.NCCL_HOME = ['']
+
     def configure_step(self):
         """NCCL has no configure step"""
         pass
@@ -47,17 +51,8 @@ def build_step(self):
         """Build NCCL"""
         # NCCL builds for all supported CUDA compute capabilities by default
         # If cuda_compute_capabilities is specified then we override this with the selected options
-
-        # list of CUDA compute capabilities to use can be specifed in three ways (where 3 overrules 2 overrules 1):
-        # (1) in the easyconfig file, via the custom cuda_compute_capabilities;
-        # (2) via the EasyBuild environment variable EASYBUILD_CUDA_COMPUTE_CAPABILITIES;
-        # (3) in the EasyBuild configuration, via --cuda-compute-capabilities configuration option;
-        cuda_cc = build_option('cuda_compute_capabilities') or self.cfg['cuda_compute_capabilities']
-
-        nvcc_gencode = []
-        for cc in cuda_cc:
-            add = cc.replace('.', '')
-            nvcc_gencode.append('-gencode=arch=compute_%s,code=sm_%s' % (add, add))
+        cuda_cc = self.cfg.get_cuda_cc_template_value("cuda_cc_space_sep_no_period", required=False).split()
+        nvcc_gencode = [f'-gencode=arch=compute_{cc},code=sm_{cc}' for cc in cuda_cc]
 
         if nvcc_gencode:
             self.cfg.update('buildopts', 'NVCC_GENCODE="%s"' % ' '.join(nvcc_gencode))